Occasional discussion here of the nature of the influence of Finnish on Qenya eventually led me to my university library to reconsult their copy of the first...
... Which it does not. The use of both _w_ and _v_ to represent the same sound is only from cofusion of orthographies. Old Finnish spelling (before the...
Hello, Christopher Gilson wrote an fascinating essay on Kalevala influence in Tolkien's early Qenya. Among other things, he noted the apparent relationship...
... Actually, in books printed in Gothic (Blackletter) style, 'w' was the norm in Swedish, like it still is in German and Polish. In books printed in Antiqua...
Pavel Iosad wrote: "A further twist is added by the fact that the Finnish word [_kulta_ 'gold'] is one of the numerous loans into Finnish from very early...
... Indeed it is. Relating to this issue, I think it would be interesting to find out all possible Finnish lexical influences on Qenya from the _Qenya...
... In full knowledge that such 'irregularities' derive from earlier regularities (a point not in dispute, I know), which only reinforces the point made on...
Once again, I'd like to set out and give a few comments on Arden R. Smith's excellent and interesting column in VT, "Transitions in Translations". In numbers...
... In 1938 some German censors were asking Tolkien if he were _Arisch_ and Tolkien ridiculed the idea of asking it by _regretting_ to admit he had no Jewish...
Petri Tikka wrote the following, to which I would like to add some further notes on the occurrence of these forms in the Kalevala excerpts in C. N. E. Eliot's...
On Mittwoch, September 24, 2003, at 07:10 Uhr, Hans Georg Lundahl ... I don't think German editors are asking that *now*. Indeed, I don't think this has...
... What about the Shires of the Carolingian Empire encompassing both France and Germany (contemporary to the Shires in KIng Alfred's England)? That would be a...
Naffarin Thinking about the conceptual stages of Tolkien's private languages that preceded QL led me to take another look at Naffarin. All that remains of...
... It seems to me possible that _-far-_ is inspired by the Latin defective verb _fari_ 'speak'. If the preceding element reflects Latin _novus_ and English...
... But _bosh_ (in English at any rate) means 'nonsense' rather than 'speech'. In light of that, I wonder whether _Naffarin_ might not be derived from the...
In a letter to VT (published in #36) Anthony Appleyard looks, inter alia, at the QL entry _velike_ 'great' [VT36:34]. He notes the obvious resemblance to...
An authorial note to the c. 1959-60 essay "Quendi and Eldar" describes what Tolkien calls "a primitive past tense" formation, "marked as such by the 'augment'...
Hello, ... With this, one has to compare Welsh _cathl_ 'hymn, lay, song'. Together wth [Old] Irish _cétal_ it points to an earlier *_knt-l-_ (syllabic nasals...
... I think it's possible to interpret _onen_ (LR:1036) as < *_a-ān-en_ suggesting that _-e_ was at least at home in the 1sg. Perhaps we even have to posit an...
In Elvish theology, it is well known that the current state of Arda, resulting from its corruption by Melkor is "Arda Marred", _Arda Sahta_ in one source...
Didier has proposed that Valarin _Amanaiāl_ in _Ažāraphelūn Amanaiāl_ 'Arda Unmarred' actually means *'blessed' rather than 'unmarred', and that V....
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:00:16 -0000 "Patrick H. Wynne" <pwynne@...> ... I have noted this resemblance, and several others between Khuzdul and Valarin: ...
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... In XII:357 (n.18) Tolkien gives the meaning in Valarin of _aman, man_ as :"The Valarin element _aman, man_ 'blessed, holy' learned from Oromė". ...
... Tolkien's remark is quite relevant to my scheme. It was written a few years after "Quendi and Eldar", that much is true, but it does not contradict the...
I would like to discuss a phonetic problem raised by the well-known Sindarin word _certh_ "rune". Its presumed etymology is given in XI/396 : "The Sindarin ...
... The question is whether the 1. sg. of S. _agor_ could have been _*agoren_. [I don't think that was the question, really; the question was whether S _ónen_...
... Well, a little misunderstanding then. That was really the question for me. As, apart from the ending _-en_ which isn't clear, S. _ón-_ may just as well be...
[cross-posted to elfling, lambengolmor and tolklang] I would like to inform you that I have revised my analysis of the so-called _Atalante_ fragments. There...
